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Published Sunday, July 01, 2007

It's been a long road for wireless enhanced 911, or E911. When the FCC first mandated that commercial wireless operators deploy location technology to pinpoint callers dialing 911 from their cell phones in 1996, those operators were pulled along kicking and screaming. They fought for waivers to the deployment deadlines — and still missed many deadlines, even after getting those waivers. Meanwhile, public-safety answering points, or PSAPs, complained about operators' lack of responsiveness, and the FCC levied millions of dollars in fines. More than 10 years later, operators are quite amicable, coverage is wide, and many large PSAPs ...

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